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Rather than use a separate nose cone or fork/stem extension as seen on early prototypes, Scott have instead opted for a more traditional hourglass-profile head tube and internal fork steerer that still minimises frontal area but avoids any conflicts with the UCI's technical guidelines.

Crowds gather around the menacing front end of marco pinotti's scott plasma 3:

In fact, Scott marketing and public relations director Adrian Montgomery says the company provided the sport's governing body with technical drawings at multiple stages of development in order to guarantee compliance.

The seat cluster sports a deep-profile seat tube that closely shadows the rear wheel and widely spaced seatstays that leave lots of room for air to pass cleanly through. Also helping the aero cause is the relocation of the rear brake to down near the bottom bracket, which includes press-fit bearing cups and especially tall junctures with the enormous down tube to provide good pedalling efficiency.

The chainstays are uniquely shaped, too, starting out very tall and narrow at the bottom bracket and closely following the sides of the rear wheel before making a quick jog towards the rear-entry carbon dropouts.

Up top is a telescoping aero-profile proprietary carbon fibre seatpost, held in place with a well integrated binder (plus a bit of friction material wedged in between the post and frame) and capped with a Fizik Ares TT-specific saddle.

All of HTC-Columbia's Plasma 3s are fitted with Shimano's Dura-Ace Di2 electronic group, whose multiple shift button positions likely came in handy through some of the twists and turns on the road into Cuneo. Fully internal routing – even right through the Missile Evo's base bar, extensions and stem – helps maintain the frame's clean lines, and the team have even developed their own under-saddle battery mount to keep it tucked out of the wind and easily accessible when it comes time to recharge the Li-ion cells.

For Wednesday's fast run into Cuneo, Pinotti ran HED wheels front and rear – a Stinger Disc and deep-section Stinger 9 front tubular – and 22mm-wide Continental tubulars at both ends. Total weight as pictured is 8.9kg (19.62lb).

Marco pinotti is using pro's new missile evo aerobar system on his scott plasma 3: